From the small-government side of the political debate- an editorial looking at the caps on welfare handouts and the Miliband brothers’ respective responses:

David Miliband, the Blairite brother who was widely expected to win the leadership until the unions sneaked Ed into the top spot via the cat flap in Labour’s back door, has written a 3,000-word tome for the New Statesman magazine. In it, he urges his party to get out of its comfort zone and rethink the attitudes and policies that cost it the last election.

Specifically, he says that the weaknesses of David Cameron’s Big Society project ‘should not blind us to the dead end of the ‘Big State’. . .

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